Ann: Tanzanian Update on Nachu Graphite Project, page-161

Good Morning Amorga

here is the relevant amendment to the Tanzania mining legislation, (below)
IMO converting natural graphite ore i.e 5% carbon through a mineral process to form a "mineral concentrate" ie 90+% carbon would be inline with the new Tanzania mining Legislation.

This is also inline with the company that is intending to process its rear earths for export to the Uk for further purification.

here is there flow sheet on stages. detailing how they will process a 4.75% mineral ore into a 45% mineral concentrate in Tanzania, then a 75% mineral concentrate in the UK.

Ngualla is one of the world’s largest NdPr deposits
The Ngualla deposit is located in Tanzania, 147 kilometres from the city of Mbeya. It is one of the world’s largest NdPr deposits, with total mineral resource containing 4.6Mt of REO. The deposit is host to a thick blanket of weathered, high-grade mineralisation from surface. The Weathered Bastnaesite Zone Mineral Resource estimate at a cut-off of 1.0% REO is 21.3Mt grading 4.75% REO, containing 1,010,000t REO, of which 89% is in the Measured category.

Tanzanian operations to produce 32,700tpa of beneficiated REO mineral concentrate grading 45% REO
The Company plans to process 711,000tpa of dry ore through a multi-stage flotation-based beneficiation process to produce 32,700tpa of high-value, 45% REO concentrate containing 14,700tpa of REO.

The UK operations converts the 45% REO concentrate into
2,810 tonnes of neodymium and praseodymium rare earth oxide (2N min 75% Nd2O3),
• 625 tonnes of mixed SEG and Mixed Heavy rare earth carbonate,
• 3,475 tonnes of cerium carbonate and 7,995 tonnes per annum lanthanum carbonate.

the following was in a ASX announcement from another Tanzania mining company.

"The Regulations supporting the new legislation were gazetted by the Tanzanian Government in January 2018. The Minister indicated at the meeting that further Regulations are being prepared that clarify aspects of the legislation that weren’t covered in the recent Regulations and to take into consideration feedback from stakeholders."

Tanzania Mining Amendment
http://parliament.go.tz/polis/uploads/bills/1498723111-EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY AND FINANCIAL LAWS-4.pdf